After flirting with the mainstream in the late ’90s, when the millennium turned, drum’n’bass got a little confused. The music got darker, and harder, diverging into way too many sub-genres with ridiculous names (“drill ‘n’ bass,” anyone?) and scaring off the women. Most of the female energy went into new…
It wouldn’t be WMC without Sunday School For Degenerates, the legendary Made Event 24-hour party that makes the most of conference’s final stretch, this year from March 27 to 28. It’s a party where you can come and go at will, and let it all hang out, bloodshot eyes, arid…
Made Event always puts on some of the biggest shebangs during Winter Music Conference — Sunday School for Degenerates, Anjunabeats’ annual do, and so on. New to the crew’s lineup this year, though, is a one-off featuring Dutch trance megastar Ferry Corsten, who headlines his own Once Upon a Night party…
New York City trio — well, maybe threesome is a better word — Menya delivers the kind of tech-savvy genre blending that could emerge only from a college dorm in 2K10. These NYU undergrads have file-shared, cut up, and flipped the script on electro-pop, coming up with a project that’s…
French duo Air has always occupied a singular astral plane. J.B. Dunckel and Nico Godin create compositions that are nominally electronic but above all organic-sounding. They’re slightly retro, dabbling in the experimental ’70s, while also otherworldly and futuristic. They’re Teutonic in their love of machinery but Gallic in their embrace…
Friday, March 5*Tonight at Transit Lounge, the home of many fun, free things, check out a screening of the new Serj Takian DVD, Elect the Dead Symphony. (Elect the Dead is his new huge project wherein he plays every single instrument). Click here to visit Transit Lounge’s page.*Carnaval on the…
A few Miami acts are playing official (and semi-official) showcases at SXSW in Austin in a couple weeks. If you’re lucky enough to make it over to Texas for this, here’s who they are and where you can catch them.DJ CrazeNicaragua-born, Miami-rased DJ Craze has had as many lives as…
While we update Crossfade a bunch of times a day, the Miami New Times still features a fresh crop of music news weekly, including features that go into more depth than the usual blog post. This week, Christopher Lopez gives the run-down on Choc Quib Town, a Colombian urban fusion…
One of the longest-running roots-reggae bands, Steel Pulse boasts a list of former members twice as long as the current lineup. Only two of today’s players have appeared on all 11 of the group’s studio albums: keyboardist and backing vocalist Selwyn Brown and lead guitarist and vocalist David Hinds. That’s…
D.O.N.S. is best known to many clubbers as a remixer of Technotronic’s immortal “Pump Up the Jam.” Some 16 years after the original track’s release, in 2005 the Hamburg, Germany-based producer took his reworked version into the far reaches of the UK singles chart. He did so by grabbing the…
The namesake guitarist of the Damon Fowler group might look, at first, a little too fresh-faced to really know about the blues. But the cherubic Gen Y-er already boasts more than a decade on the live circuit. Growing up in the Tampa Bay area, he picked up a guitar at…
In a recent Head Spins column here on Crossfade, we marveled at the rise of South Forida dubstep as far out of Miami’s epicenter as West Palm Beach. (Props to the Reazin for holding things down at Respectable Street and Propaganda). Here’s more proof the low-end sound is sweeping the…
Usually we save the “Flyer of the Week” accolades for Friday, but here’s a last-minute entry that we have to share before it becomes null and void. We give you the yellow-and-black job heralding, uh, “a new kind of playas ball” at Sweat on Wednesday. Back in the days of…
Last week, we announced a retooling of the music policy at the King is Dead’s. Though the polished, grown-up-boho vibe continues there unabated, every Friday and Saturday night, the lounge is bringing in some live music for added flavor. (DJs will still spin in between sets). There are two scheduled…
Mary J. fans, this is your year. Not only did she release an excellent studio album, Stronger With Each Tear, but in the next six months, if you’re willing to drive across a couple counties, you can catch her twice in South Florida. Over the summer, the queen of hip-hop…
Friday, February 26*Crossfade favorites Arboles Libres play Fridays at the Vagabond tonight. Cover is free before 11 p.m., $5 after. Click here to visit the Vagabond’s web site.*BFGF, This Heart Electric, and Melting Mandarin play the Born Electric one-off party tonight at the Guest Lab, a cool warehouse spot on…
One of the most distinct trends in this year’s Ultra Music Festival lineup so far is the presence of several so-called “livetronica” acts, crossover artists from the jam scene whose experimentation is more with bleeps and bloops than guitar noodling. One of the best is Colorado’s Pretty Lights, the stage…
If you spotted John Joseph on the street and didn’t know any better, you’d probably quicken your pace. Though he’s now 47 years old, the New York hardcore god is a compact, tattoo-covered package of brawn who could easily kick the ass of a poser half his age. And at…
Pitbull had already crowned himself the king of Calle Ocho, the street (and symbolic home of just about everything he represents). So it was just a matter of time before Calle Ocho, the festival, acknowledged his coronation — and all the free advertising on “I Know You Want Me (Calle…
Miami’s hard rock scene is pitifully low on estrogen. Enter Crimson, a local six-piece that’s been playing together in one form or another for the past few years, but only recently has started kicking it into high gear. The backbone of the band are the married couple (awww) of guitarist…
Lil Jon may be famously over-the-top, but he’s no buffoon. And so, with his beloved crunk approaching punchline status in the past couple years, he wisely noted it was time to retool. Enter Crunk Rock, a term that’s the title of his upcoming album, a term for its new musical…
The namesake guitarist of the Damon Fowler group may look, at first, a little too fresh-faced to really know about the blues. And yes, Fowler is a cherubic Gen Y-er, but he already boasts more than a decade on the live circuit. Growing up in the Tampa Bay area, he…
